Fastener or hook and the like.



C. E. RElNHARDT-RUTLAND. FASTENER 0R HOOK AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION F LED JULY 28' 19].:-

Patented Jan. 23, 1917.

Wiiyle SSE-5 UNITED STATEti PATENT @fflhlfllih CHARLES EMMANUEL REINl-IARDT-RUTLAND, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

FASTENEB 0B. HOOK AND THE LIKE.

Application filed July 28, 1915.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES. EMMANUEL REINHARDT-RUTLAND, a subject of the King of England, residing in London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners or Hooks and the like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is for improvements in or relating to a one-piece fastener or hook for light material, such as clothing fabric or surgical bandages, and refers to that type of fastener intended for use without the necessity of sewing it to the material which carries it or of using any additional or special holding means to secure it in place.

According to the present invention, however, a fastener or hook consists of a length of wire bent into a substantially U- or V- shape with hooks at the extremities of both limbs, the hooks lying in planes which are normal to a plane containing the limbs of the U or V and containing the bend of the limbs.

Preferably the ends of the hooks are inturned toward their limbs so that after the hooks have been inserted into the material the points will not be liable to stick accidentally into or scratch the person manipulating the fastener, or, for instance, a hospital patient to whose bandage the device may have been applied.

The invention will be more clearly understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which I Figures 1 and 2 illustrate two difierent positions of the double-limb fastener as it is being inserted into the material; Fig. 3 shows the same fastener in a position securing the free end of a piece of material.

The fastener consists in a length of wire A bent into a substantially U-shape as shown with hooks A at the extremities of its limbs, or bent into a form differing a little from the U-form in that its sides, parallel in the U, are slightly divergent from their junction so that the device thus resembles a bluntpointed V.

In using such a device to secure, for example, the free end B of a piece of material, which may be considered as representing a bandage or puttee or the like, the hooks A are passed through the end of the strip B as shown in Fig. 1 and are, with Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1191?.

Serial No. 42,304.

the limbs, then threaded through the material by moving the fastener in the direction of the arrows until it is pushed through so far that the stop formed by the looped end A comes up against the material as shown in Fig. 8. The loop A prevents further movement of the fastener through the material under the action of a direct pull substantially in the direction of the length of the limbs. The limbs, with their hooks, then project from the material and the points of the hooks, which are preferably sharpened, may be engaged with an adjacent portion of the material, also as shown in Fig. 3. Obviously the hooks A could be engaged if desired with a metallic or other eye or eyes but it is preferred to insert them directly into the material.

The fastener according to this invention is very rigid in itself and when in use holds the two portions of material tightly and securely in place.

It will be appreciated that such a fastener has many applications other than as a fastener for a puttee or surgical bandage referred to above. For example it may be usefully employed as a suspender for a sock or stocking, in which case the hooks A may be engaged with an under-garment after the fastener has been inserted into the sock or stocking, or vice versa; as a skirtgrip Or as a trouser-clip when cycling; for taking a reef or fold in the trouser-band so as to render the use of braces or a belt to support the trousers unnecessary; as a hook for curtains. Such applications of the invention are only given by way of example and not by way of limitation.

t will be seen that in the constructions illustrated the ends of the hooks A are inturned slightly toward their respective limbs to prevent pricking or scratching of the object covered by the material and also so that they will not readily prick or scratch the user. This feature of inturning the ends M or points of the hooks is particularly advantageous in the case, for example, when the fastener is used with a surgical bandage or as a suspender for a sock or stocking.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A fabric fastening device formed of a single piece of wire bent upon itself into approximately U-shape to form two approximately parallel legs and a connecting member, the connecting member and legs said legs having a hook at its end; substanlying Within the plane passing through the tially as described.

legs, the greatest Width of the fastening de- In testimony whereof I have signed my vice being adjacent to the hooks, the arname to this specification in the presence of 5 rangement being such that the fabric two subscribing Witnesses.

throiwh which the legs pass is not spread 7 T 01' str e tched during its passage over the legs CHARLES EMMMUDL REINHARDT RUTLAND' and the connecting member, but is contract- Witnesses: ed or plalted as it is drawn toward the HARRY N. RIDGE, 10 center of the connecting member, each of JAMEs T. MIDDLETON.

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